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She says that she needs to shoot better. She must improve her ballhandling. She needs to get stronger. She has to "think" the game better and become a more effective leader. When Breanna Stewart talks about her game, her words might be those of any of hundreds of girls competing at Boo Williams' annual Nike Invitational tournament, not the consensus No. 1 junior in the country and a potentially transcendent talent. "One in a million," her high school coach, Eric Smith, calls her. In the mold of women's basketball icons Cheryl Miller and Candace Parker, longtime scout and evaluator Mike Flynn says. Stewart is a 6-foot-4 category-defier in high-tops. She has a...

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